You know what they say about payback? Well I'm the bitch.

Fred ,'Life of the Party'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


hippocampus - Oct 29, 2017 12:31:05 pm PDT #24835 of 28212
not your mom's socks.

Oh!

GRIN


hippocampus - Nov 09, 2017 5:33:07 am PST #24836 of 28212
not your mom's socks.

A free short story for you or your nook, by Kat Howard and this Fran Wilde person... "A Recipe For Magic": [link]


-t - Nov 09, 2017 6:30:54 am PST #24837 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Lovely.


Beverly - Nov 09, 2017 8:11:59 am PST #24838 of 28212
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Very lovely! (grumbles: taut, not taught)


-t - Nov 09, 2017 8:14:07 am PST #24839 of 28212
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Heh. Yeah, I stifled that same grumble.


amych - Nov 09, 2017 5:13:58 pm PST #24840 of 28212
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Oh, my. It's beautiful.


hippocampus - Nov 10, 2017 6:13:17 pm PST #24841 of 28212
not your mom's socks.

(psst I love you all and your grumbles)


EpicTangent - Nov 29, 2017 3:09:20 pm PST #24842 of 28212
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

For the next 6 and a half days, Zulily is having a Buy One, Give One event for Random House books, under $9.99. If you've got kids to buy gifts for, check it out!

[link]


Toddson - Nov 30, 2017 1:07:22 pm PST #24843 of 28212
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I used to have a Barnes and Noble membership, when they had a store a couple of blocks from my office. The store closed (as so many are) and I dropped the membership ... for one thing, when I tried to order online, they refused to take my credit card - said that the address I had registered didn't match the billing address for my card.

Years pass and - since it takes about 45 minutes to get to an actual store and I do stop in about once a month - I got a new membership. Today I decided to try to order something online ... which was the single most frustrating experience I've had for a long time. I had to reopen the account (which was automatically set up when I got my previous membership), reset the passsword and log in ... and never got it to recognize the membership. I tried to contact them by email ... but never got past the sign in page - signed in repeatedly and it kept staying on the sign in page.

Called customer service and, after hearing a repeated message that they didn't show any orders coming from the phone I was using and a long-ish wait, got to an actual human ... who seemed to only say that the website was fine, the system was fine, so what was my problem.

Maddening.


Jessica - Dec 01, 2017 4:15:28 am PST #24844 of 28212
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I gave up my B&N membership for good when they charged me three times in one year for the membership fee. Getting it refunded over and over was too much effort.